Sin Quotes

The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ, is that he is more clearly aware than other men of the rebelliousness and perennial pride of the flesh, he is conscious of his sloth and self-indulgence and knows that his arrogance must be eradicated. Hence there is a need for daily self-discipline.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Do not be irritated either with those who sin or those who offend; do not have a passion for noticing every sin in your neighbour, and for judging him, as we are in the habit of doing. Everyone shall give an answer to God for himself. Everyone has a conscience; everyone hears God's Word, and knows God's Will either from books or from conversation with other people. Especially do not look with evil intention upon the sins of your elders, which do not regard you; to his own master he standeth or falleth. Correct your own sins, amend your own life.

~ John Of Kronstadt

The more grievous the sin, the greater the repentance, God was bidding His time.

~ Émile Zola

And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?

~ Umberto Eco

—Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of her sex.

~ James Joyce

That's the greatest sin a director can commit, to make a film simply because he wants to make a film.

~ Krzysztof Kieślowski

Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.

~ A.b. Shepherd

We're a divided country on sexual issues. That's why every news cycle brings more controversy.

~ Russell D. Moore

Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance, or else involuntarily as a result of some salutary and providential reversal. ‘For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged; but when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, so that we should not be condemned with the world.’ (1 Cor. 11:31-32).

~ Gregory Of Nazianzus

Sin is wrong, not because of what it does to me, or my spouse, or child, or neighbor, but because it is an act of rebellion against the infinitely holy and majestic God.

~ Dave Harvey

The last Bible I looked at contained over 2000 pages, and you humans managed to get yourself kicked out Paradise by page 5. That has to be some kind of record.

~ Dennis Garvin

If Anthony Weaver knew anything, it was this: That life and love and country and duty…that all of these things faded in time. They came and went with the impartial cruelty of the Indian sun. But sin and sin alone is eternal.

~ Kim Wright

Sin can be forgiven, but stupid is forever.

~ Coco Chanel

Certainly we struggle as victims of other people’s unkindness. We have been sinned against. But we cannot excuse our sinful responses to others on the grounds of their mistreatment of us. We are responsible for what we do. We are both strugglers and sinners, victims and agents, people who hurt and people who harm.

~ Larry Crabb

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

~ John Calvin

All weather is sin-related. Lust causes thunder, anger causes fog, and you don't want to know what causes dew.

~ Stephen Colbert

One gives way to the temptation, only to rise from it again, afterwards, with a great eagerness to reestablish one's dignity, as if it were a tombstone to place on the grave of one's shame, and a monument to hide and sign the memory of our weaknesses. Everybody's in the same case. Some folks haven't the courage to say certain things, that's all!THE STEP-DAUGHTER: All appear to have the courage to do them though.

~ Luigi Pirandello

Repentance is a result of God's kindness, not a prerequisite to it.

~ D.r. Silva

The more you free your heart from sin, the more your heart is free to serve.

~ Orrin Woodward

Your behavior doesn't show you who you are, it shows you who you believe yourself to be.

~ D.r. Silva

The author says people are guilty of wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

~ T.h. White

Satan fell by the force of gravity.

~ G.k. Chesterton

In the irresistible logic of guilt, one evil leads to another, one sin is developed out of another. There is nothing abrupt, nothing casual in the process. The road to sin is smooth, because an army of transgressions has passed over it. When such a development takes place, the community is filled with consternation. Men meet each other and say, Have you heard what has happened? Mr. A. has turned out a defaulter. Mr. B. has been robbing his bank. How could he have done it? Alas! he did it long ago, when he took the first step, when he diverged a very little way from the path of right. After that, every other step was easy, natural, and logical.

~ James Clarke

The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

. . . Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.

~ Peter R. Pouncey

Religion imprisons God. By its own accord, if we are made in the image and likeness of God, then His condemnation of the sinner is an act of hypocrisy. I believe God to be greater than that.

~ Steve Maraboli

I can never endorse sin any more than when I tell people it's their nature to do it.

~ D.r. Silva

I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is addicted. Let us not, however, plume ourselves in not being guilty of a vice to which, as we have no natural bias so in not committing it, we resist no temptation. What I meant to insist on was, that exchanging a turbulent for a quiet sin, or a scandalous for an orderly one, is not reformation.

~ Hannah More

Telling people they don't have a sin nature doesn't promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery.

~ D.r. Silva

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

~ Richard Rohr

I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.

~ Richard Rohr

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

~ Martin Luther

When I was a young man and very well thought of,I couldn't ask aught that the ladies denied.I nibbled their hearts like a handful of raisins,And I never spoke love but I knew that I lied. But I said to myself, 'Ah, they none of them know The secret I shelter and savor and save I wait for the one who will see through my seeming, And I'll know when I love by the way I behave.'The years drifted over like clouds in the heavens;The ladies went by me like snow on the wind.I charmed and I cheated, deceived and dissembled,And I sinned, and I sinned, and I sinned, and I sinned. But I said to myself, 'Ah, they none of them see There's part of me pure as the whisk of a wave. My lady is late but she'll find I've been faithful, And I'll know when I love by the way I behave.'At last came a lady both knowing and tender,Saying, 'you're not at all what they take you to be.'I betrayed her before she had quite finished speaking,And she swallowed cold poison and jumped in the sea. And I say to myself when there's time for a word, As I gracefully grow more debauched and depraved, 'Ah, love may be strong, but a habit is stronger And I knew when I loved by the way I behaved.

~ Peter S. Beagle

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.

~ Sri Aurobindo

Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

~ Bertolt Brecht

We sometimes fear to bring our troubles to God, because they must seem small to Him who sitteth on the circle of the earth. But if they are large enough to vex and endanger our welfare, they are large enough to touch His heart of love.

~ R.a. Torrey

We become so accustomed to our sins we sometimes lapse into a state of peaceful coexistence with them, but God never ceases to hate them.

~ Jerry Bridges

We are to come to the Word in a spirit of humility and contrition because we recognize that we are sinful, that we are often blind to our sinfulness, and that we need the enlightening power of the Holy Spirit in our hearts.

~ Jerry Bridges

Another doctrine repugnant to civil society, is that whatsoever a man does against his conscience, is sin; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of good and evil. For a man's conscience and his judgement are the same thing, and as the judgement, so also the conscience may be erroneous.

~ Thomas Hobbes

The Holy Spirit opens the inner recesses of our hearts and enables us to see the moral cesspools hidden there.

~ Jerry Bridges